Month: December 2007

Ordered a copy (I don’t know what happened to the copy that I read in 1980!) of “Gödel, Escher, Bach – an eternal golden braid“, the Pulitzer-prize-winning non-fiction book by Douglas Hofstadter. Found his “Stanford Read More …

For the past 16 months, I have maintained not one, not two, but three different blogs in (virtually) different locations (i.e. all hosted by WordPress ) – it occurred to me only now (??) to Read More …

Here is a leap (coming out of a discussion with my friend Dr. Slava Shumowski): one way to avoid both the “mathematisation” (the classical scientific approach), and the trivialisation (the “Realwissenschaft” [Carnap] approach – e.g. Read More …

I couldn’t really come up with a proper title for this posting. Lately, I have made contact with Python, an object-oriented, high-level scripting language (which I first noticed consciously after reading about Pausch). There is Read More …

In the 1990’s I spent a large portion of my time helping large companies manage their “knowledge” – no matter how elusive this quantity (or quality) may be. Since then, the topic has not fallen Read More …